# Azerbaijan

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Azerbaijan
- **ISO code**: AZ
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Asia / Western Asia

## In brief

Azerbaijan has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, none of them binding. Azerbaijan approved the Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2025–2028 by presidential decree in March 2025. Regulators include President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Overview

Azerbaijan approved the Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2025–2028 by presidential decree in March 2025. General law (data protection where enacted, consumer, telecommunications and sector rules) applies to AI systems. This record exists so that coverage is complete and honest: it will be expanded when an official AI instrument is published or a reviewer adds one with its source.

## Regulatory status

Azerbaijan approved the Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2025–2028 by presidential decree in March 2025. General law (data protection where enacted, consumer, telecommunications and sector rules) applies to AI systems.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: none recorded. Strategy or guidance: AI Strategy 2025–2028.

## Regulators

- President of the Republic of Azerbaijan — Official government portal; AI policy lead not yet identified — https://president.az/

## How to use this profile

- Open the official source on each instrument before relying on any date or obligation.
- Treat strategies and guidance as signals of coming regulation, not as binding requirements.
- Check data-protection, consumer, employment and sector law that applies to AI systems regardless of AI-specific instruments.
- Treat the absence of an AI-specific instrument as a gap in our records, not as legal certainty; check the government portal and regulator sites linked here.

## Official sources

- President of the Republic of Azerbaijan — Government of Azerbaijan — https://president.az/
- Data Protection and Privacy Legislation Worldwide (country table) — UNCTAD — https://unctad.org/page/data-protection-and-privacy-legislation-worldwide

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **Artificial Intelligence Strategy of the Republic of Azerbaijan for 2025–2028 (presidential decree, March 2025)** — National strategy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/azerbaijan-ai-strategy-2025-2028
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/azerbaijan-ai-strategy-2025-2028.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/azerbaijan
- **Official source**: https://president.az/
- **Source document**: President of the Republic of Azerbaijan
- **Published by**: Government of Azerbaijan
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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